Michael W. Goheen
Christian Living
“Communal idolatry is one of the most fundamental ways the Bible speaks of human rebellion and sin. Our failure to recognize this has had a crippling effect on the mission of the church in a world rife with idolatry. We have here a very helpful treatment of this theme, grounded in a careful reading of the biblical text and aimed at equipping God's people for its mission in today's world. I am deeply thankful to God for Chris Wright and his faithful and relevant scholarship, which is such a gift to the church today.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The flourishing of the whole creation, including the entire life of humanity, is the purpose and intention of a good and generous God. Our sin has corrupted and polluted every aspect of creation leading to curse instead of blessing, but one day God will restore that blessing fully. Until then we are called to be agents of God's original intention. Sherman has offered a wonderful blueprint for what that flourishing might look like in our time. What I really laud is her attention to the rich creational diversity of human flourishing—marriage, justice, art, education, business, and more. In a time when idolatry is destroying the witness of the church in America, these words are welcome and timely.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“'If you want to know about water, don't ask a fish' applies to the Western church perhaps more than any other. If you want to know about Western culture, don't ask Western Christians, because they are swimming in it. And this is so dangerous because the gospel is embodied in this culture and thus vulnerable to accommodation to cultural idolatry. Goudzwaard and Bartholomew are two of the very best at interpreting Western culture. They dig deep to the religious foundations of our culture, which is so important for the church's mission today. This is a very important book!”
Christian Mission in the Modern World
Evangelism & Missions
“John Stott's Christian Mission in the Modern World is a small classic and remains surprisingly relevant for today. And no one is more qualified than Chris Wright to bring the discussion up-to-date—to expand, reframe and even sometimes disagree with Stott's work on certain issues within the evangelical and biblical commitment shared by both. This will prove to be an excellent basic introduction to mission and evangelism, along with providing a biblical understanding of salvation, dialogue and conversion for Christian mission. But it will also be a helpful guide to how evangelical thinking on mission has developed in the past four decades by two of its premier exponents.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Michael Green’s classic book on evangelism in the early church significantly formed my understanding of evangelism and mission over four decades ago. As I listen to church leaders struggle today with what faithful evangelism should look like in our current context, I believe this book has much wisdom from church history and from its author. In these pages we wrestle with the constancy of the biblical task of speaking good news. We must continually rethink that task and find fresh ways to carry it out in new contexts. I am thankful for the work of Michael Green and the way he has opened up the wisdom of the church through history.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Matthew Newkirk has written a fine book that roots the missional calling of the church in the vocation given to humanity in creation. This is a much-needed emphasis today. The loss of a doctrine of creation has crippled the evangelical church and led to much misunderstanding of mission. Moreover, his narrative unfolds with careful attention to the text of Scripture—again, a much-needed emphasis in missional church literature today.”
History & Biography
“Evangelicalism is a large and influential Christian tradition that has played an important role in the last two centuries. But what does that tradition look like today amidst the dramatic changes brought on by globalization and the shift of the church to the Southern Hemisphere? In this book, a first-rate group of leading scholars from every corner of the globe analyze contemporary evangelicalism in this new context. As an evangelical myself I found these chapters to be quite enlightening both in assessing my own tradition and understanding its continuing significance in the twenty-first century.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is the kind of book I like to recommend to preachers. It is firmly rooted in sound biblical scholarship yet it is in the service of listening to God’s address through Daniel to his own contemporaries so we can hear that address today. The message of Daniel comes alive as we hear what the Spirit is saying to us in our own missionary setting. Chris Wright does not just tell us what the text says but shows us what the text is trying to do – shape a distinctive people in the midst of a hostile culture then and now. This delightful book helps us read and preach Daniel in a way that is both faithful to the original context and relevant to the present.”
Hearing the Message of Habakkuk
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Chris Wright has become a trustworthy and reliable interpreter of Scripture for many in our day. He is a fine scholar fully in command of the tools of biblical scholarship. Additionally, he is also pastorally sensitive, able to hear God’s address to our present context as it shapes a faithful faithful missional people for the sake of the world. I am always delighted when Chris takes on another canonical book; this brief commentary will apply the Word of God to our day, whether it guides the preacher or a group Bible study or one’s personal reading.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“The Bible is an extremely complex book, made up of many books written in a variety of literary genres over a long period of time. It is easy to get lost amid this complexity. And so it is part of our missional and theological task today to provide clear maps that tell the story as lucidly as possible to enable God's people to place different parts of the Bible within its overarching narrative structure. In The 30-Minute Bible Bartholomew and Vanosky provide just such a map. It can help even beginners to not just understand the Bible's story but be shaped by it instead of the false, idolatrous stories of our culture.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Craig Bartholomew continues his important project of relocating a post-Enlightenment scientific hermeneutical approach to Scripture within the broader framework of listening to God’s address. His earlier book on the issue was outstanding, but its length and academic depth proved challenging to many. In this new book, Bartholomew gives us a shorter and more accessible study that will be suitable for hermeneutics classes in seminaries. I plan to use it in my course. Devotional and warm, Listening to Scripture is also rigorous and challenging! A delightful book.”
Recovering the Full Mission of God
Evangelism & Missions
“This is an excellent book--a marvelous contribution to the ongoing discussion of the nature of mission. With sterling biblical scholarship Dean Flemming demonstrates clearly from the biblical story, and especially the New Testament, that the church's mission is full-orbed, encompassing life, word and deed. The careful treatment of the Old Testament story and a wide range of the New Testament canon should go a long way to fill out more reductionist understandings of mission. I hope this book gets a wide reading.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“It is gratifying to see biblical scholars who have a love for the church and a commitment to its mission deploy their academic gifts in service of God’s people. Mark Keown is one of a growing number of biblical scholars who demonstrate how a missional hermeneutic can open up fresh insight into the biblical text. I have been looking for a good missional reading on Romans and so am personally grateful for this book. Keown exhibits fine biblical scholarship connected with a sensitivity to mission that will surely equip the church for its missional vocation.”
The Book of Job and the Mission of God
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“It is wonderful to see a missional hermeneutic developing among both biblical and mission scholars in the last three or four decades. Tim Davy has played a role in this development and now to see him push this into the wisdom literature and particularly the neglected book of Job is particularly gratifying. This book is a great example of how a missional hermeneutic can open up new insights into Scripture.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“John Delhousaye has soaked in the canonical Gospels in a way that few people ever do. This is the third volume of this project in which he carefully moves through central themes of the narratives of all four Gospels—in this volume conflict, mission, kingdom parables, and compassion—taking us on a journey with him to meet the living Christ so that we may learn how to know and follow him more faithfully. This work combines a careful devotional reading with a scholarly engagement with the text.”
Theology
“This is a wonderful book. Ashford and Thomas take us to the heart of the Christian faith: the biblical story centered in Jesus and the kingdom as the true story of the whole world, the mission of God’s people to embody that good news in all of life, and a missionary encounter with the idolatrous story of our Western culture. Their writing is engaging and the idols they challenge are timely, making this a book full of insight for faithful Christian living today. May this book find a wide readership for the sake of God’s kingdom.”
The Great Story and the Great Commission
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Chris Wright continues to produce important books for the church. This is another one. Here Chris brings together, in a succinct, clear, and popular way, a number of important themes that have characterized his writing. This includes a summary of a missional hermeneutic, the importance of narrative to the Christian faith and mission, the Gospels’ mission mandate and holistic mission, and more. This book would make a great textbook for a variety of theology classes. I will begin to use it and would highly recommend it to others.”
Christian Living
“The word ‘mission’ is not a biblical word but theological terminology, like Trinity and providence, that seeks to capture the Bible’s teaching. But what exactly is it? This well-designed book offers a helpful guide to the rich discussion that has taken place across theological traditions over the past century. The representatives of the five positions are well-chosen. The helpful introduction by Craig Ott, the particular presentation of the different approaches, and the ensuing dialogue will orient the reader to the main issues in understanding mission today, but it will also offer much insight into a biblical understanding of mission which is the fruit of much theological labor. Highly recommended.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Theology
Introducing Christian Mission Today
Evangelism & Missions
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Theology
The Core of the Christian Faith
Christian Living
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